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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 3 Oct 2019

    Jeet Heer Retweeted R.J. Lehmann

    There was actually a court case in Minnesota in 1908 on the question of whether the Finns were white.https://twitter.com/raylehmann/status/1179481921610489862 …

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    R.J. Lehmann @raylehmann
    Finland is a Nordic country. It is also a part of the Fennoscandian Peninsula. It is not Scandinavian. Finnish is not a Scandinavian dialect or, indeed, an Indo-European language at all. Thus concludes today's episode of Pedant's Corner. I will not be taking any questions.
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      2. Tyler Dinucci!!‏ @TylerDinucci 3 Oct 2019
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        What!

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      3. Ty4on‏ @Ty4on 3 Oct 2019
        Replying to @TylerDinucci @HeerJeet

        But there’s no racism in Europe, what makes you think we can see race /s

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      1. Matt Thompson‏ @mvthomster 3 Oct 2019
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        Swedes and Norwegians are monsters

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      1. Terry Gitersos‏ @TGitersos 3 Oct 2019
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        I'm pretty sure I've encountered evidence of Icelandic immigrants being barred from Winnipeg hockey leagues in the early 1900s for the same reason.

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      2. Nathan Fitzgerald‏ @nat_fitz1 3 Oct 2019
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        Were they?

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      3. swiley1983  🦀‏ @swiley1983 3 Oct 2019
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        Yes http://www.historymuseumeot.com/mfahs/htm/part8_0026.htm …

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      1. Servant of the Sacred Fire‏ @RevAndyKarlson 3 Oct 2019
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        My grandmother grew up in the SW corner of Iowa (Villisca, site of the famous axe murder). The train station was one town over, & once when family visited from The City they arrived scandalized because "there were so many black people in that town!" By black they meant Swedish.

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      2. Imber Noctis‏ @ImberNoctis 3 Oct 2019
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        I don't know what prompted this conversation, but I do know that some Finns in Finland have said to my face that they would like it if I called Finland Nordic as opposed to Scandinavian, and I saw no reason to argue with them in their own country.

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      3. Cas‏ @casempire 3 Oct 2019
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        It's not that the Finns would have anything against being Scandinavians (they don't), they just know geography and it isn't about their opinion. All of Scandinavia is Nordic, but the latter includes five countries whereas Scandinavia only includes three (Sweden, Norway, Denmark).

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